Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincolnwas the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth12 February 1809
CountryUnited States of America
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All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
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I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and ha
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
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He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know
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He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
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I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
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Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men
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Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
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Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
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I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.